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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span
style='font-size:13.5pt'>Ordinary Evening Reading Series Presents
Novelist/Memoirist Douglas Bauer and Poet Lisa Starr at the Anchor Bar, </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span
style='font-size:13.5pt'>New Haven</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>Tuesday,
March 24th, 7 PM</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>NEW HAVEN,CT, March 4, 2009:
Iowa meets Rhode Island for this month’s Ordinary Evening! Novelist and
memoirist Douglas Bauer will join Rhode Island’s Poet Laureate Lisa Starr in a
reading at <b>7PM</b> on <b>Tuesday March 24th</b> in the <b>Anchor Bar’s</b>
Mermaid Room, 272 College Street in New Haven. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>"What do you make of this weather, Hoopie?" I
ask. He shakes his head, winces slightly. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>"It’s all a tease," he says. "It’s
all a tease. Gets everybody thinkin’ things are gonna be great,
see. Then they plant every damn seed they can lay their hands
on." Spit. "I can just see it: Soon’s everything’s
in the ground, we’re gonna see a drouth like few have been before."<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>I ask Hoop how he knows.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>"Too good. Things are going just too good to
mean <i>something’s</i> not up. I’ve never seen a spring
like this."<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align=center style='text-align:center'>--Doug Bauer, <i>Prairie City,
Iowa</i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align=center style='text-align:center'> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:1.5in'><b>For A Student In One Of My Basic Writing
Classes<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>"<em>Not only are permanent goodbyes the worse, but it
is also one of the most horrible things about life in general."</em><o:p></o:p></p>
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— Excerpt from a student's essay, written, by the author's choice, on
"saying goodbye."</em><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal> May I just say that I love you, Lauren Lonucci,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>and that somehow your paper made me weep?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>You will find the words, eventually,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>you will learn to live with grief.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Surely, your diction will improve.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>But your heart — your heart is home already.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>My young friend, you got this sentence wrong<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>about eight different ways,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>but that bit about 'permanent good-byes' —<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>A+, A+, A+.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align=center style='text-align:center'>--Lisa Starr<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#29303B'>Douglas
Bauer’s<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#29303B'>books
include the novels <em><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Dexterity</span></em>,
<em><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The Very Air</span></em>,
and <em><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The Book of Famous
Iowans</span></em>, and the non-fiction books <em><span style='font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'>Prairie City, Iowa</span></em> and <em><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The Stuff of Fiction</span></em>. He
has edited two anthologies, <em><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Prime
Times: Writers on Their Favorite Television Shows</span></em> and <em><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Death by Pad Thai and Other
Unforgettable Meals</span></em>. His stories and essays have been appeared in <em><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Esquire</span></em>, <em><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The New York Times Magazine</span></em>,
<em><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The Atlantic</span></em>, <em><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Harper’s</span></em>, <em><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Sports Illustrated</span></em>, <em><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Tin House</span></em>, <em><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Agni</span></em>, and many other
magazines. He’s received grants from The National Endowment for the Arts and
The Massachusetts Arts Council. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#29303B'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#29303B'>Doug
previously worked as a magazine editor and for several years as a free-lance
magazine writer. Since 2004, he’s been a professor of English at Bennington
College and, starting in 1994, a member of the core faculty of the Bennington
Writing Seminars. He lives in Boston with his wife and their two dogs.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#29303B'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#29303B'>Lisa Starr’s</span></strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#29303B'> latest collection of poems is <em><span style='font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'>Mad with Yellow</span></em>, which was just published.
Rhode Island’s Poet Laureate, she moved to Block Island in 1986 and never
wanted to leave. With her husband, Champlin, and their children Orrin and
Camille, Lisa owns and operates the Hygeia House. Lisa is a two-time Rhode
Island poetry fellowship winner, a basketball coach, and a former college
instructor and waitress. Her two previous collections are <em><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Days of Dogs and Driftwood</span></em>
(1993) and <em><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>This Place Here</span></em>
(2001), and her individual works have appeared in journals and publications
around the country. Lisa is also the founder and director of the Block Island
Poetry Project.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#29303B'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Ordinary Evening's Spring 2009 season
includes readings by poets, novelists, and non-fiction writers. We
welcome drinkers and teetotalers alike and hope you can join us for what the <i>New
Haven Independent</i> called "one of those unofficial civic ventures that
make New Haven such a vibrant place." <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Read writers' biographies,
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